America’s First All-Black CCC
America’s First All-Black CCC Richard D. L. Fulton The Gettysburg Battlefield served as the home to America’s first all-black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp in 1939, whose recruits helped in making improvements to the old 1863 former combat site of a fierce and brutal war. The CCC was established in 1933 by President Franklin…
Sabillasville Environmental School
Alisha Yocum SES Receives Grant for Gettysburg Battle Field Trip Sabillasville Environmental School – A Classical Charter (SES) received a grant from the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant Program. The grant is awarded based on a competitive national application process. Mr. Hanna and Mrs. Isennock, middle school teachers at SES, applied and were…
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS…of the Battlefield Kind
by Richard D. L. Fulton While the Gettysburg Battlefield has always been viewed as a paranormal hotspot, stories have evolved over time addressing the multitude of spirits that inhabit the area, to the alleged discovery of a time portal that may very well exist on the fields, to UFO flyovers. The following are just…
Haunted Gettysburg
The Untold Story by Richard D. L. Fulton There have been countless stories of ghosts on the Gettysburg Battlefield, within and beyond the national park boundaries, and there has been a seemingly endless array of books and documentaries based on the myriad number of ghostly encounters. But not all of the stories have been told,…
German POWs Helped Save Adams’ Agriculture
Richard D. L. Fulton Note: Cover Photo (Never before published) Nazi medical officer poses near the High Water Mark on the Gettysburg Battlefield, 1939 (Source: National Park Service, Gettysburg). It was found by an NPS archivist while searching for materials for my book. (Adapted from ‘Nazis’ in Gettysburg: World War II Comes to a Civil…
PFC Howard Mace
From Iran to Gettysburg by Richard D. L. Fulton Photo Courtesy of Howard’s daughter, Coleen Reamer Pvt. Howard Mace appears second from the left in this photograph, taken in the Middle East. Photo Courtesy of National Park Service, Gettysburg Photographed is Camp Sharpe. Private First Class Howard Mace’s career in the Army during World War…
Veteran Spotlight
by Richard D. L. Fulton Major George W. Webb Gettysburg’s “Tuskegee Airman” When George W. Webb, then-holding the rank of first lieutenant, reported for duty as the first black commander of a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp on the Gettysburg battlefield, the only red tails he would have encountered there would have been the species…
